Vacheron Constantin celebrate watchmaking minimalism with three new Patrimony models featuring a new sunburst antique silver-toned dial, new fresh strap colours, a customisable caseback and trimmed 39mm diameter for the manual-winding models.
Vacheron Constantin have created the perfect balance between rounded curves and taut lines. Inspired by the minimalist watches of the 1950s, the Patrimony collection has been celebrating purity of style and the quest for essentials for 20 years. New diameter, new dial and strap colours, customisation: the collection continues to be firmly rooted in the modernity of its era with three new models. Two manual-winding models in white gold or pink gold feature a new 39mm diameter, an antique silver-toned dial, a closed caseback providing scope for personalised engraving (below) and two new strap colours, azure blue or olive-green.
The case is sculpted in pink or white gold. This aesthetic is echoed on the collection’s signature convex dial, whose sunburst-finished surface is attired in a new old-silver-toned colour. This shade providing a hint of retro styling contrasts with the pink gold of the Patrimony collection’s characteristic slim hands, hour-markers and circular ‘pearl’ minutes track composed by 48 polished 18K gold pearls.
While understatement may be the order of the day, precision is clearly every bit as important. At the heart of the case beats manual-winding Calibre 1440 (above). Developed and manufactured by Vacheron Constantin, this movement is just 2.6 mm thick and endowed with a 42-hour power reserve.
A new white gold model with retrograde moon phases and date in white gold features an old-silver-toned silver-toned dial and an olive-green alligator strap.
The new moon phase retrograde date watch also favours timeless understatement, with a 42.5 mm white gold case featuring a new dial colour. The sunburst old-silver-toned shade creates a subtle contrast with the pink gold of the hands and hour-markers, giving a two-tone twist to this model driven by in-house self-winding Calibre 2460 R31L powering two complications.
The first is a moon-phase indication in an aperture at 6 o’clock, graduated to correspond precisely to the moon’s cycle of 29 days, 12 hours and 45 minutes. This precision moon phase requires just one correction every 122 years. The second consists of a retrograde date display in the upper part of the dial, a Vacheron Constantin technical and style signature. Through the sapphire crystal caseback, this in-house calibre displays the emblem of the Maison: a Maltese cross whose shape has inspired that of the openworked 18K gold oscillating weight.
Technical Specifications:
Patrimony moon phase retrograde date
Reference 4010U/000G-H070
Calibre
2460 R31L
Developed and manufactured by Vacheron Constantin
Mechanical, self-winding
27.2 mm (11 1/2”’) diameter, 5.4 mm thick
Approximately 40 hours of power reserve
4 Hz (28,800 vibrations/hour)
275 components
27 jewels
Hallmark of Geneva-certified timepiece
Indications
Hours, minutes, retrograde date
Precision moon phase, age of the moon
Case
18K white gold
42.5 mm diameter, 9.7 mm thick
Transparent sapphire crystal caseback
Water-resistance tested at a pressure of 3 bar (approx. 30 meters)
Dial Old-silver-toned, sunburst finishing
Convex external zone, 18K 5N pink gold pearls applied circular minutes track
18K 5N pink gold applied hour-markers and hours & minutes hands
Strap
Olive-green Mississippiensis alligator leather with calf inner shell, tone-on-tone stitching, square scales
Buckle
18K white gold pin buckle
Polished half Maltese cross-shaped
Price upon request
Patrimony Manual-Winding
References 1410U/000G-H017
1410U/000R-H018
Calibre
1440
Developed and manufactured by Vacheron Constantin
Mechanical, manual-winding
22.1 mm (9 1/2”’) diameter, 2.6 mm thick
Approximately 42 hours of power reserve
4 Hz (28,800 vibrations per hour)
116 components
19 jewels
Hallmark of Geneva-certified timepiece
Indications
Hours, minutes
Case
18K white gold / 18K 5N pink gold
39 mm diameter, 7.7 mm thic
Closed caseback
Water-resistance tested at a pressure of 3 bar (approx. 30 meters)
Dial
Old-silver-toned, sunburst finishing
Convex external zone, 18K 5N pink gold pearls applied circular minute track
18K 5N pink gold applied hour-markers and hours & minutes hands
Strap
Olive-green/Azure blue Mississippiensis alligator leather with calf inner shell, tone-on-tone stitching, square scales
Buckle
18K white gold / 18K 5N pink gold pin buckle
Polished half Maltese cross-shaped
Price upon request
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